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Mário Centeno: Can the Euro survive Covid?

For all the talk of solidarity, has the virus exacerbated the EUs greatest weakness, economic divergence?

Europe has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic – now that most countries have controlled the spread of infection and begun to ease their lockdown, does the EU have a coherent strategy for recovery? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to the Finance Minister of Portugal and Head of the Eurozone Group of Ministers, Mário Centeno. For all the talk of solidarity, has the virus exacerbated the EUs greatest weakness, economic divergence?

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Mário Centeno, pictured during an interview with Reuters in February 2020 (Credit: Pedro Nunes/Reuters)

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